Amnesty International has demanded the reopening of a landmark case
against Britain over the use of torture in the north of Ireland.
The Dublin government took the case of the so-called ‘Hooded Men’ to the
European Court of Human Rights in 1971.

Irish emigrant groups have welcomed US President Barack Obama’s
executive order on Thursday changing US deportation laws, which could
allow many ‘illegal’ Irish to return to Ireland and visit their families.

The Dublin government has been accused of attempting to erase the 1916
Easter Rising from the history books following a disastrous and deeply
conflicted launch of commemorative events for the anniversary.

New evidence that victims were allowed to bleed to death has led to
demands for a new inquest into the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre.
Meanwhile, a decision to wind down criminal proceedings arising from
the Bloody Sunday massacre is to face a legal challenge.

Ireland is on the cusp of enormous political change. Our homegrown
political establishment, who have defended their interests against all
comers since the foundation of the state, suddenly find themselves
wrong-footed and floundering.

There have been calls for an urgent investigation into the death of a
Maghaberry prisoner, who collapsed in his cell at the County Antrim
prison last week. The 30-year-old was taken to Craigavon Area Hospital,
where he died on Thursday afternoon.

The battle against the Water Tax is largely a battle for the hearts and
minds of the people. Indeed the same can be said for the wider struggle
for meaningful Irish political, economic and social freedom.

The political controversy over abuse allegations by west Belfast woman
Mairia Cahill has taken a further twist following the revelation that
she actually wrote to the Provisional IRA’s army council to ask for their
assistance in seeking justice.

Former Sinn Fein councillor Pat Rice is the latest to be arrested in
connection with the IRA execution in 1972 of informer Jean McConville,
but appears to have been an embarrassing victim of mistaken identity.

The ‘new IRA’ has said it planted two devices in the County Tyrone town
of Strabane in an attempt to ambush PSNI police on Thursday night. It is
the second time in the past two weeks that an attack has been mounted in
the north west. A bomb left at a vacant house in Derry was also directed
against the PSNI, it has emerged.

All republican and left-wing groups have committed to support local
demonstrations taking place today [Saturday, November 1] in every county
across Ireland as part of the ‘Right2Water’ campaign. The protests
are expected to be the largest Ireland has seen in decades.